Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 639 779
Rank change year-on-year -17 +140 -244
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 26 17 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.039% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 33
10th Percentile £59,500 £69,318 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,199 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £74,935 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% -6.33% +10.12%
75th Percentile £106,250 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,644 £129,830
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £74,870 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.87% -6.41% +34.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,841 16,317 31,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.42% 37.34% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,803 11,017 25,658
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 24 £90,000 +20.10% 37
London +33 15 £90,000 +2.86% 17
UK excluding London -27 9 £87,500 +16.87% 21
Work from Home +12 8 £90,000 +20.10% 17
North West -5 6 £90,000 +25.02% 8
North of England -35 6 £90,000 +20.21% 16
South West - 2 £87,500 -
South East -19 1 £60,000 - 2

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) GCP
2 14 (53.85%) AWS
3 13 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 7 (26.92%) SaaS
5 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (19.23%) Azure AKS
6 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (15.38%) Cloud Run
8 3 (11.54%) Apigee
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (11.54%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (11.54%) Vertex AI
9 2 (7.69%) IaaS
9 2 (7.69%) Serverless
9 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) BigQuery
1 10 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) CircleCI
2 5 (19.23%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Law
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) React
2 6 (23.08%) Node.js
2 6 (23.08%) React Native
3 4 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 2 (7.69%) JWT
4 2 (7.69%) OAuth
4 2 (7.69%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
5 2 (7.69%) Genomics
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Android
1 6 (23.08%) Apple iOS
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
3 11 (42.31%) Test Automation
4 9 (34.62%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) AI
5 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
7 6 (23.08%) Android Development
7 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (23.08%) iOS Development
7 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Agile
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Migration
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 4 (15.38%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (88.46%) Terraform
3 6 (23.08%) Argo
4 4 (15.38%) Ansible
5 3 (11.54%) Rancher
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Istio
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Solace
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk